The Origin of Thai Surname: Establishment of Patriarchal Power within Thai Family
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This article has studied surname enforcement according to the Surname Act, B.E. 2456, in the early days of enforcing surnames, through analyzing historical evidence and related documents, based on the patriarchal outlooks of Luce Irigaray, a French feminist philosopher to explain how that forcing of the surname inherited from fathers to sons or male relatives becomes the origin of patriarchy in the family system. However, the Surname Act was also the starting point for creating what Irigaray called a "Male Subject" in a patriarchal society. But for the attempt to establish a male identity in the Thai state, it has rather helped strengthen the ideology of the traditional state to be embedded in the modern state to be inherited by inheriting the surname.
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